Recent content by Pilgrimer

The word Easter has nothing to do with the Babylonian goddess Ishtar, other than the names sound similar, any more that the name Jesus came from the Greek god Zeus just because they sound similar. The linguistic history of the English word "Easter" is well documented. The word "Easter" was...

But aren't you assuming that the three days and three nights is how long Jesus would be in the tomb? What if the three days and three nights of Jesus being "in the belly of the beast" is how long Jesus would be "betrayed into the hands of sinners," (Matthew 26:45) and under "the power of...

Jesus and the disciples ate the first passover meal on Thursday evening, the beginning of Nisan 15 and the first day of unleavened bread. He was crucified the next day, Friday, the preparation day for the weekly Sabbath (still Nisan 15 and still the first day of unleavened bread). The...

I read your article and it mirrors not only what I have learned, but my personal experience, thank you for taking the time to share it. We tend to think of God's work of salvation as a work that is completed at the moment of repentance and conversion. And certainly it is true that our legal...

Dating the death of Herod is a popular subject among those who oppose the Christian observance of Christmas. But the case for King Herod dying in the spring of 4 BC relies on a powerful combination of physical artifacts, Roman political records, and a tightly compressed timeline of events...

My apologies for my absence, it was unavoidable. But in rereading our conversation to catch back up and looking more closely at your chart, I noticed that the lunar phases on your chart actually show what I have been saying. Accordingn to your chart, the moon reached it's full phase beginning...

What has helped me to understand these somewhat difficult spiritual things (the "things of God"), especially the difference between and purposes of the body, soul, and spirit, was to look at the human being as a three-part existence modeled exactly after the Old Testament Tabernacle/Temple: The...

Hm. I will give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they are arguing that nothing is required to reconcile us with God because only the blood of Jesus can do that. Nothing is required to wash us, to purge us, to deliver us from of sin, nothing but the blood of Jesus can do that. Nothing is...

The year Jesus was born does not define the dates or days on which the Passover was observed. When Nisan (and every month for that matter) began was based solely on when the spotters in Jerusalem saw the first sliver of a crescent of the new moon. So while I have done extensive study on dating...

Here is the link to the datasets of NASA's "Six Millennium Catalog of Lunar Phases" published on AstroPixels NASA dataset Could you please provide a link to the chart you posted of the lunar phases so I can verify it? Obviously, one of us has some wrong information.

I don't know anyone who says that. Certainly not any Christian I have ever heard or read. That is what we are accused of by people who do not understand the power of God's Grace. Grace does not mean being empowered to obey the letter of the Law. Grace means being empowered to obey the Spirit...

Jesus ate his last supper on Thursday evening, which was the beginning of Nisan 15. He was crucified the next day, Friday, which was still Nisan 15 on the Jewish calendar. They would have been eating one of the seven passover meals the evening after Jesus was crucified, the second meal of the...

I don't agree. The Christian Sabbath is "today, if you will hear his voice," you too can cease from your own works and rest in the finished work of Christ. (Hebrews 4) Just as God "rested" (ceased) from His own works of the old physical creation because His work was finished, so too Jesus at...

This is talking about Saturday, the regular weekly Sabbath. In a 7-day festival, one of those 7 days would inevitably fall on a Saturday. If this was talking about the "festival sabbath," there were always two of those sabbaths during the Passover week, the first day and the seventh day. So...

But what you have to demonstrate is scriptural evidence that the day before Nisan 15 was ever called "the preparation." If you are suggesting that it was on the basis of the sacrifices being slain in the temple and the meat roasted in the afternoon in preparation for the meal that evening...